DESIGN BLOG

Hi! Thanks for checking out the Red Room Lafayette’s Web and Graphic Design Blog. You’ll find some interesting articles on goings on around the shop, customers of ours, general graphic design and web site design news, and much more! If you have a suggestion for an article please contact us!

If you’re anywhere near serious about your business, having a logo is non-negotiable: you could have the most creative, memorable business name in the world, but without a graphical representation of your business, you’ll only be treading water. It’s a simple fact...

Statistics show that back in 2016, mobile internet usage surpassed desktop usage for the first time. It was a huge change in the way the average user accesses information and media on the internet; far from the early days of internet access on mobile phones where...

A logo for your business might seem like simply a design that helps your customers understand the name of your business. However, logos are much more important—they act both consciously and subconsciously on the mind of a potential customer and play a significant role...

Finding a graphic designer in Lafayette LA can be tougher than it seems at first. If you’re not familiar with the graphic design industry, you might be surprised at the wide range of options available—there are large design and marketing firms, smaller boutique firms...

Blogging for Business – SEO for WordPress Search Engine Optimization – (SEO) the process of adjusting the content, structure, etc, of a website so that it will be displayed prominently by a search engine. (Thanks dictionary.com) Since we started the Red...

Between the two of us we read a lot…books, magazines, blogs and random information on the internet. So this is what we’ve been reading… For Better or For Work by Meg Cadoux Hirshberg I’ve only gotten halfway through this book…You...

If you are in the Lafayette, Baton Rouge, or New Orleans area and looking for a web and graphic designer or help with your next marketing initiative, Red Room is a perfect choice. Red Room is a professional company run by Blake Berard, who has a bachelor’s degree in...

Red Room’s Rules on Good Logo Design Logos are everywhere…literally. We see good ones, bad ones, and everything in between. I mean, just looking around right now I see about ten of them. Logos are the backbone of any company’s identity. They help people remember...

13 Inexpensive ways to get more business Here at Red Room we are always looking for different ways to advertise. We’re not really into traditional advertising (like radio and TV) because, let’s face it, they are expensive and don’t always work. The main goal of...

5 Reasons Why Your Business Website Might Not Be An Effective Marketing Tool Fact: the Internet is everyone’s source for information these days. Businesses that realize this fact are often more successful because their information is easily accessible to the public...

Red Room is looking for a super cool project to work on. The best part is we’re giving the winning applicant a 95% discount. That’s right – NINETY FIVE. Suggest a real business / band / artist or establishment that you think could be a SUPER COOL design project and if...

Being web people, we are always telling our clients about easy ways to increase traffic to their website. Flickr is a great way to do this and with all the cool new changes, we just want to use it more! The changes weren’t obvious when I first logged into my...

Being a web design firm, we look at websites a lot. Most of the time they are ordinary, but every now and then we come across some cool stuff. Here are some examples of neat things we see other people (and Red Room) doing in web design. Hand-drawn/Sketching...

While browsing through Red Room’s latest copy of Inc. magazine, and article titled “Where have all the bloggers gone?” caught my attention. Intrigued, I read on. It basically states that the amount of companies that are blogging has declined since the rise of...

The world is a big place and, as a small business, trying to stay relevant can be a little discouraging. In the 2+ years Red Room has been in business, I’ve stumbled upon some web sources that contain great articles and advice on being an entrepreneur....

When hypertext markup language (HTML) was first proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 at CERN (an organization that is now simulating the conditions of the Big Bang), the world was a very different place. Berners-Lee originally developed the system as a method of...